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Origin of the iPhone
rambilly brings us a story from Wired about the origin and development of the iPhone. From the article:
"Steve Jobs had tasked about 200 of Apple's top engineers with creating the iPhone. Yet here, in Apple's boardroom, it was clear that the prototype was still a disaster. It wasn't just buggy, it flat-out didn't work. The phone dropped calls constantly, the battery stopped charging before it was full, data and applications routinely became corrupted and unusable. The list of problems seemed endless. At the end of the demo, Jobs fixed the dozen or so people in the room with a level stare and said, 'We don't have a product yet.' The effect was even more terrifying than one of Jobs' trademark tantrums. When the Apple chief screamed at his staff, it was scary but familiar. This time, his relative calm was unnerving. 'It was one of the few times at Apple when I got a chill,' says someone who was in the meeting."
The other time he got a chill?
The second Windows was successfully put on a mac. 0_0
Tantrum? Real men throw chairs!
Amnesty International
This article reads like one from Reader's Digest.
Check again... they're two entirely different summaries of the exact same Wired article.
appleguru.org
Yes... and the GP is wrong because nobody here RTFA. I'm so going to submit this link and put a story on how lemurs eat eagles during the jurrasic period...
FTFA : This 4.8-ounce sliver of glass and aluminum is an explosive device that has forever changed the mobile-phone business
What an appropriate metaphor to refer to the success of a product that is powered by a lithium-ion battery.
You just got troll'd!
It fell out of the sky, accompanied by a host of angels. Everyone knows that.
Then, hovering in the air, surrounded by a wreath of misty light and cherubim, it received it's first call from God who delivered the three prophecies of Cupertina.
The first was a vision of Hell, which looked like an AT&T service agreement and 900 page bill.
The second was how to save (switch) souls from the clutches of Vista and delivered by the Virgin Mary herself in the guise of Ellen Feiss.
The third is held under tight guard by high ranking members of the Huckabee presidential campaign, and is to be revealed on the first New Moon after the current Pope dies.
So let it be written. So let it be dumb.
does it explain why the lemurs didn't wait until the lunch period to eat the eagles? Plus, I don't really think they did eat the eagles because didn't they just have a new album?
rewriting history since 2109
Move along. Nothing to see here. Unless you're in the elitist minority.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
it's really funny, Slashdot has a script to tag reply duplicates, but not duplicates articles on the front page.
that's one hell of a vibrate setting you've got there...